Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Bertha Mae (Carter) Roberts

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P.O. Box 38, Hominy, Okla 74035
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The Hominy News - Progress
Vol. 33, No. 46
November 14, 2001
Page 5

Bertha Mae (Carter) Roberts

Long time Edmond resident, Bertha Mae Roberts, died Wednesday at the 
Heartland Health Center, in Edmond.  She died just 7 hours and 5 minutes 
short of her 104th birthday, November 1, 2001.

Bertha and husband Eddie E. Roberts lived in Hominy from 1923 to 1942.  
They were farmers, worked in grocery stores and he was a truck driver.  
Bertha Roberts then made her home in Edmond since 1952 when she and her 
husband, Eddie E. Roberts, moved to Edmond from Oklahoma City.  Bertha 
made her home at 101 East 21 until she entered the Heartland Health Center 
in June of this year.

Bertha was born in Crawford County Arkansas, near the Town of Chester, on 
November 1, 1897, to Ethridge Emmerson Carter and Della (Friddle) Carter.  
Bertha had six brothers and two sisters.

On June 14, 1917 she married Eddie E. Roberts in Polk County, Arkansas.  
From this union came two sons and three daughters.  Her husband Eddie of 
Edmond, preceded her in death in 1969.  Her daughter Edna Mae, preceded 
her in death at the age of 22 months in 1920.  Another daughter Hattie 
Allison died in 1985 in Florence, Alabama.  Bertha is survived by two 
sons, Alvin Roberts and wife Edith of Hominy, and grandson Al Roberts also 
of Hominy and Melvin Roberts and wife JoAnn of Edmond, one daughter, 
Hallie Wachtel, of Edmond, 14 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and 17 
great-great grandchildren.

Bertha is a long time member of the Edmond First Church of the Nazarene 
and leaves behind a great number of friends and other relatives.
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